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The classic work of Mrs. F. H. Burnett, the world-famous children's literature writer, has been adapted into movies many times. It once starred the famous child star Shirley Temple and was rated as one of the best children's films in the 1990s. Sarah Crewe is a strong and precocious girl who is sent to boarding school in London. Because her father, Captain Crewe, is very rich, Miss Qin, the principal of the boarding school, regards her as a "model student" in the school. At Sarah's eleventh birthday party, she was shocked to learn that her father had died in India and had not left her a penny. Sarah's princess world collapsed and she became a homeless orphan. Seeing that she could not get any benefit from Sarah, the snobbish Miss Minchin sent her to work as a little coolie. In difficult circumstances, Sarah always held on to her fantasy of life, and remained graceful, tolerant and loving in the face of poverty and humiliation. With the help of the Indian uncle who lived next door, she finally made her dream come true. Not only did she overcome her own difficulties, but she also helped the poor friends around her.

"Gulliver's Travels" tells the story of surgeon Gulliver's experiences after he was shipwrecked on four voyages. The book is divided into four parts, which respectively introduce Gulliver's experiences and experiences in strange countries such as Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island, Wizards, Science Fiction, Longevity, Japan and Shenma. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize and satirize the British society and human society at that time, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class. The organic unity of fantasy and reality is the greatest feature of this work.

"Selected Tragedies of Shakespeare" includes Shakespeare's four major tragedies "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", as well as the well-known love tragedy "Romeo and Juliet". The selected translation is the unedited translation by Zhu Shenghao. The selected plays for "Shakespeare's Comedy Selections" include "Twelfth Night", "The Merchant of Venice", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "The Taming of the Shrew", "As You Like It", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and other works. They revolve around the themes of love, friendship and marriage, with humorous and vivid language, vivid, rich, bizarre and interesting plots. The stories have twists and turns and have eternal charm. "Selected Historical Plays of Shakespeare" includes several classic Shakespeare historical plays by the master translator Zhu Shenghao. They are original, interesting and can be chewed over and over again. It also includes "Henry IV" (top and bottom) translated by Mr. Wu Xinghua and "Henry V" translated by Mr. Fang Ping. This book contains a total of seven of Shakespeare's most famous historical plays: "The Tragedy of Richard II" (The Tragedy of Richard II), "Henry IV (Part 1 and 2)", "Henry V", "The Martyrdom of the Queen" (Antony and Cleopatra), "Caesar Meets the Murderer" (Julius Caesar), and "The Heroic Treason" ("Coriolanus").

Sadness does not mean that I am weak, but on the contrary, it will turn into a steady stream of motivation, driving me to keep moving forward. Since I experienced so many hardships in my childhood and finally survived and became the person I am now, then the current hardships will definitely inspire me to continue moving forward and take further steps.

"Ancient Greek Myths and Legends" introduces: Ancient Greece is one of the ancient civilizations in the world. During its survival and development, the ancient Greeks created a brilliant and colorful culture and left a rich heritage, among which myths and legends are one of them. Ancient Greek mythology is world-famous for its beauty and movingness. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Greeks who lived in the ancient Aegean Basin and were called "normal children" by historians. As a product of human childhood, Greek mythology has shown eternal charm. It is the earliest literary form in Europe, gave birth to European literature and art, and has become an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Western literary and artistic works, aesthetic theories and social science monographs. Among the many Greek mythology books, "Ancient Greek Myths and Legends" by Schwab, a famous German writer in the 19th century, is the most popular version in the world. Selling well in countries all over the world.

There are twelve novels in "The Collected Works of Hemingway" including "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Capital of the World", "The Light of the World", "Happy Gentlemen", "The Big Change", "You Will Never Do This", "The Mother of a Homosexual", "Salute to Switzerland", "Three Days of Wind" and "Farewell". "Weapons", among which "The Old Man and the Sea" is a masterpiece of Hemingway's unique style. The old man's perseverance, his generosity and kindness, and his full love for boys all symbolize the beautiful character of mankind. The anti-war novel "A Farewell to Arms" published in 1929 had a strong social effect and also brought Hemingway great reputation.

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"Mother" is one of the best works of the great Russian proletarian writer Gorky. This novel profoundly reflects the magnificent revolutionary struggle of the masses under the leadership of the Russian proletarian party in the early 20th century, and for the first time created the image of a proletarian hero with socialist consciousness. The novel describes the life of the old fitter Il Vlasov and the changes in his son. Through the experiences of this family, it shows how the working class moves from spontaneity to consciousness. The image of the mother is very important in this novel. The mother's awakening process fully reflects the historical trend that the masses will inevitably move towards the road of revolution under the education of the party.

This book is a representative work of Balzac, the famous French novelist in the 19th century, and is included in the "Private Life Scenes" of "A Study of Customs" in "Comedy Humane". The protagonist in the book, Old Man Goriot, is an old noodle seller in Paris, France. For the sake of his two vain daughters who strived to live a decent life in the upper class, he spent all his last property and died alone and desolately without the company of his relatives. The tragedy of Old Man Goriot unveiled the tenderness of family in capitalist society and revealed the naked nature of money transactions. This important work shows the French society in the first half of the 19th century, reflecting the decadence and luxury of the aristocratic life at that time, and also reproduces the life styles of all social classes at that time.

Amory Bryan is a typical "lost generation". He is handsome in appearance, wealthy in family, full of fantasy and wants to get ahead. He is disdainful of reality with his aristocratic arrogance and is out of tune with society. While studying in college, the surrounding environment intensified his doubts about middle-class values. Just when he was confused and on the verge of degradation, the First World War broke out, and he left the campus and rushed to the military camp. During the war, his mother died and his classmates died tragically on the battlefield. After the war, he returned to New York to do business, but his investment failed and he eventually went bankrupt. At this time, the beloved girl got married, and the spiritual mentor whom I had admired for many years also died of illness. The repeated blows made him hate life to the extreme... "Heaven on Earth" focuses on expressing the strong rebellious spirit of the young generation after the First World War against traditional values ​​and moral standards. It is very similar to Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye". It is an "educational novel" with modern significance in the history of American literature.

"Stories of the Jazz Age" was published in 1922. It is Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and includes 10 short stories: "Nana", "Camel's Back", "May Day", "Return to Youth", "Tarquet in Chipsade Street", "Oh, the Auburn Witch", "The Bitterness of Happiness", "Healing the Heart", "Hot and Cold Blooded" and "Gretchen's Forty Blinks". These short stories have vivid plots and profound implications. They record and describe the dreams, pursuits, love, pain, disappointment, hardship, confusion and other complex life experiences of the younger generation. They condense and reflect the colorful characteristics of the times and the fate of an entire generation or even several generations. They highly dramatize the fierce conflicts between modern consciousness and traditional concepts. They are the short stories written by Fitzgerald in this period that are rich in depth and power.

Margaret, a courtesan in Paris, was conquered by the sincere love of Armand, who was not rich, and fell in love. Just as the lovers were looking forward to a better life in the future, Armand's father secretly forced Margaret to leave Armand. Armand does not know the truth and thinks that Margaret abandoned him intentionally. Margaret endured the humiliation and died of hatred due to the double torment of illness and grief. This innocent love ended in tragedy.

"Notre Dame de Paris" is set in France under the rule of Louis XI in 1482. It describes the entanglement between a gypsy girl, Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, and the abandoned Quasimodo. Quasimodo, who is ugly, deaf and mute, has a noble and pure heart. Esmeralda is a beautiful and pure dancer who was framed to death by Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, because she did not succumb to his desires. Quasimodo was desperate for losing his idol, and angrily pushed Frollo from the top floor to his death. He also went to the cemetery and committed suicide next to Esmeralda's body.

"How Steel Was Tempered" was written in 1933. The young Paul Korchagin was expelled from school for getting into trouble. Forced by life, he walked into the "human world". Hard life, heavy labor, naked cannibalism, and the dark bottom of society tested and tempered this stubborn young man... This is the process of training and growth for a new generation of young people, and it is also a wonderful story of "a boy grows into a man"!

Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship "Pequod", had one of his legs bitten off by the ferocious and clever white whale Moby-Dick during a whaling process. Therefore, he was full of revenge and wanted to hunt down the white whale. He even lost his rationality and became a dictatorial fanatic. His ship traveled almost all over the world, and after many twists and turns, he finally encountered Moby Dick. After three days of tracking, he hit the white whale with a harpoon, but the ship was hit by the white whale. Ahab was entangled in the rope on the harpoon and was taken into the sea. All the people on the ship fell into the sea, and only the sailor Ishmael (a name in the Bible, meaning an abandoned person) was saved and came to tell the story to people. The author gave Moby-Dick the color white to symbolize innocence and terror, and the white whale to symbolize the mixture of good and evil, which is also the basic condition of the human world. This novel has become a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation due to its rich ideological content, epic scale and mature and thoughtful writing style.

The latest classic version of FLTRP! "The Merchant of Venice" creates the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking, ruthless loan shark, reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law, and religion in bourgeois society.

Carrie, an 18-year-old country girl, took a train to Chicago to find a better life. She met salesman Duluwe on the train. After arriving in Chicago, she couldn't bear the hard life in the factory, so she lived with Duluwe and met the hotel manager Hurst Wood through him. Hurstwood became obsessed with her and the two became lovers. Hurstwood's affair with a woman outside aroused his wife's suspicion, and his wife wanted to retaliate against him by divorcing him. In order to get Carrie completely, Hurstwood stole 10,000 yuan in cash from the hotel cabinet and eloped with Carrie. After settling in New York, Hurstwood was unable to be as successful as before, and his situation became worse and worse. He fell into unemployment and eventually became a beggar and committed suicide; while Carrie left him after getting an acting job in the theater and became a popular actor, but she was not happy.

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"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is Hugo's first novel and a romantic novel that caused a sensation. In the novel, Hugo used fascinating and vivid writing to describe the entanglement, conflict, and destruction among the fates of several main characters such as Esmeralda, Quasi Mordo, and Frollo. He told a legendary and tragic story that took place in Paris, France in the 15th century, and artistically reproduced the historical reality of France during the reign of French King Louis XI. The novel embodies Hugo's artistic expression principle of "contrast between beauty and ugliness". Its publication breaks the shackles of pseudo-classicism and marks the victory of romanticism.

This book describes the story of Sir Glenarvan, the owner of the Duncan cruise ship, who got clues about the missing navigator Captain Grant and decided to organize a rescue team himself. They took the Duncan boat out to sea to find Captain Grant. Along the way, he overcame numerous difficulties and dangers, and finally found Captain Grant on a desert island in the Pacific.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin", also translated as "The Record of a Black Slave" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin", focuses on depicting the tragic fate of Tom, a black slave who believed in Christianity and had a noble spirit of sacrifice, under an unequal social system, thereby revealing the sinful nature of the slavery system. Once the novel was published, it immediately aroused strong responses from all walks of life, promoted the anti-slavery sentiment of the American people to a certain extent, and thus became one of the factors leading to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

The protagonist Julien is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was working as a tutor in the local mayor's house. After the affair was exposed, he fled the mayor's house and entered the seminary. Recommended by the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris to work as a personal secretary for the Marquis de Larmore, a backbone of the extreme royalist party. He was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, Julien had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine.

This book is based on the conflict between King Louis XIII of France and Cardinal Richelieu, the powerful prime minister with a heavy army in his hands. It is interspersed with the overt and covert struggles of ministers and factions, and unfolds a very interesting story around the secret history and anecdotes of the palace. The protagonist of the book, the young warrior D'Artagnan, carries the fifteen crowns left to him by his father, rides a long-haired and thin horse, bids farewell to his parents, and goes to Paris, hoping to become a musketeer in the King's Musketeers, captained by Treville, his father from the same country. At the captain's house, he met the three musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Through the duel popular among European knights, the four became close friends who shared life and death. The young d'Artagnan came to Paris from the provinces to serve French King Louis XIII. He formed a life-and-death friendship with the three musketeers, and jointly dealt with the king's enemy, Cardinal Richelieu's guards, and won repeated battles.

This book is one of James Barry's most famous fairy tale plays. One night, Peter Pan came to the little girl Wendy's house, taught Wendy and her two brothers to fly in the air, and took them to the Island of Nothingness. Once they arrive on the island, the adventures continue one after another. They met Indians, pirates, and mermaids. Due to pirate Hook's many evil deeds, wars continue to break out, and there is no day of peace on the island. But despite the unfortunate events that happened one after another, Peter Pan always showed his talents and came up with ingenious tricks to rescue his companions.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" records the two-year asylum life of the Jewish girl Anne Frank from June 1942 to August 1944. The diary not only contains detailed records of Anne's special life during the war as a fugitive, but also an outline of Anne's own growth as a young girl. A brief yet exciting first love, a sensitive longing for parental love, and a unique perspective on how to behave and the direction of life. Although he was in hardship, his love for life and yearning for peace always ran through the lines until the last page of the diary.

The story takes place in St. Petersburg in the 19th century. The heroine Anna meets the young officer Vronsky during a trip and falls in love. After her husband Karenin discovers the matter, Anna's request for divorce is rejected and she is threatened that she will never see her beloved son again. Anna then eloped with Vronsky and lived a short and happy life, but the indifference and boredom after passion caused the final blow to her unfortunate fate. Anna missed her beloved son day by day. She was unable to resist the hypocritical and cold moral pressure of the upper class society, and could not completely break away from the aristocratic society. Finally, she committed suicide on the train in the midst of contradiction and despair. Levin and Kitty became a loving couple based on love, but not everything goes as planned in married life. Levin was saddened by the decline of the landlord economy, and tried to resist the development of capitalism, hoping to ease class conflicts through the cooperation between landlords and farmers. After his dreams were shattered, he became pessimistic and disappointed, and finally found his spiritual destination by converting to religion.

The latest classic version of FLTRP! "Pericles, Prince of Tire" tells the story of Prince Pericles who discovered the incestuous privacy of Antiochus and his daughter, feared his power, and fled his country on a long voyage. After a lot of ups and downs, he reunited with his wife and daughter.

"In Search of Lost Time" is an epoch-making masterpiece and one of the most important novels in the literary world of the 20th century. Proust used fresh and smart writing to recreate the good times that have passed away with the help of a subconscious consciousness that transcends time and space. In the first volume, "Over Swann's House", the protagonist starts from his random thoughts before going to bed and writes about the complex psychological activities he performed as a child in order to wait for his mother's kiss. Also, starting from the taste of the Petit Madeleine cake, I recall the distant past through the sense of taste and evoke some involuntary memories. Then I wrote about Uncle Swann who came to his home as a guest, and turned to the third person narrative to tell the story of Swann's love experience.

The novel is set in the French society during the Bourbon Restoration. It tells the story of two daughters raised by a wealthy businessman named Goriot. After marriage, they exploited their father's property, damaged his dignity, and tortured his emotions in a high-society lifestyle, until they had nothing and died of physical and mental exhaustion. Intertwined with this main line is the experience of the provincial young man Rastignac breaking into Paris's upper class society and recognizing all the temptations and dangers involved. The main characters in Balzac's masterpiece "The Human Comedy" appear one after another in this novel, thus opening the prelude to the "Human Comedy".

Hamlet, one of Shakespeare's four most famous tragedies, was created in 1601, when the European Renaissance entered its late stage and two years before the death of Queen Elizabeth of England (1603). Therefore, Hamlet not only embodies the ideology of the Renaissance, but also reflects the various conflicts and conflicts in the transformation period of British society. The tragedy of "Hamlet" contains four main levels: The first level involves the political tragedy of murdering the king, usurping the throne, and then murdering the prince. The second level involves the elements of social tragedy in which positive figures representing the progress of civilization fight against ugliness and sin. The third level involves the tragic element of family destruction caused by blind involvement in political conflicts. The fourth level involves the tragic elements of love in which love is destroyed and exploited.

This book is a collection of works by the famous French writer Stendhal in the 19th century. The protagonist of the novel, Julien, is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife and became an adulterer. After the affair was exposed, he was forced to enter the seminary. Later, he worked as a personal secretary for the Marquis Larmour in Paris, and was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, he had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine. This book was translated by the famous translator Mr. Hao Yun, and the translation is smooth and faithful.

The protagonist Lucien is the son of a banker, but he is not interested in inheriting his father's business. He joins the army and becomes a second lieutenant of the cavalry regiment. When driving into the city of Nancy, he accidentally falls off his horse and meets Madame Chastelet, a beautiful young woman who is watching the excitement. Madame Chastelet was young and widowed, and owned a million-dollar fortune. She was the target of many aristocratic young people in Nancy's upper class society. But Madame Chastelet was interested in Lucien, and the two began a sincere and passionate love. "The Red and the White" is one of Stendhal's most representative works. He described the emotional entanglement of the young man and woman against the background of the conflict and competition between various social forces in the French July Dynasty at that time, so he wrote it vividly and profoundly.

The author Stendhal is loved by readers for his profound analysis of the psychology of characters in novels, and is considered the earliest practitioner of literary realism. The novel records that a young man from another province not only used his own talents and hard work, but also used some deceptive means and double-dealing in his life to complete his struggle to climb up the social ladder and become a so-called upper-class person. But in the end, his true inner feelings betrayed him. The so-called "red" and "black" refer to religion (black) and secular (red). This was also the focus of society at that time and caused fierce controversy.

The latest classic version of FLTRP! "The Winter's Tale" tells the story of King Leontes of Sicily who suspected that Queen Hermione was having an affair with his friend Polixenes, so he imprisoned the queen and abandoned his newborn daughter. When his daughter was pursued by Polixenes' son, her true identity was discovered, and the queen who everyone thought was dead also emerged from hiding.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the representative work of the 18th century satirical fable writer Jonathan Swift. The story is told in the voice of Captain Gulliver, narrating his strange travel experiences in Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island and Huima. Since its publication in 1726, it has become a household classic, loved by readers all over the world, and has endured for more than 200 years.

"The Fifth Column" is set against the backdrop of the Battle of Madrid. At that time, a Spanish rebel general threatened to have four columns to besiege Madrid. At the same time, a group of sympathizers in the city would cooperate with the troops inside and outside. He named this the fifth column. The protagonist, an American reporter, helps the Spanish government forces in their counter-revolutionary work, sneaks into enemy reconnaissance posts, and captures spies and brings them to justice. His girlfriend is a somewhat cynical American college student who came to Spain to report on the war. The play also features German anti-fascist fighters, leaders of the Spanish government security agency and a black prostitute, and scenes of live drama are staged in the Florida hotel. "Spanish Land" is a documentary filmed on location jointly by Dutch directors Evans and Hemingway, with Hemingway writing the caption.

"Robinson Crusoe" describes the adventures of the navigator Robinson through a thrilling and tortuous storyline. Robinson was born in a wealthy businessman family. He did not have much ambition since he was a child. He only fell in love with sailing after a sea trip instigated by a friend. He secretly ran away from home many times, experienced pirates, terrible tropical storms and other hardships, and finally encountered a shipwreck during a long sea journey. All the sailors and passengers who were traveling with him were killed. Only Robinson survived and drifted to an uninhabited island alone. On the desert island, he grew his own food, tamed wild animals, made his own bread machine, ceramic tools, and made a canoe. Finally, with his amazing perseverance and courage, tenacious self-protection ability, rich life experience, superhuman wisdom and creative spirit, Robinson finally miraculously returned to his hometown of England after 28 years of living on the island after 35 years of absence.

"David Copperfield (Volume 2)" is a long masterpiece with a length of more than 800,000 words, centered on the open-minded intellectual David Copperfield. Through the daily life, studying and making a living, making friends and love, and travel writings of various people in the book, it fully expresses the humanitarian views advocated by the author throughout his life, and also depicts a series of eye-catching stories. Unforgettable characters: the gentle and intelligent ideal female Agnes, the eccentric Miss Trowu, the simple and kind Peggotty brothers and sisters... Among all Dickens's works, "David Copperfield" covers the widest range of social life content, shows the most complex and rigorous story structure, and is unique in the history of world literature.

Huckleberry is a smart, kind and brave white boy. He fled to the Mississippi River in pursuit of a free life. On the way to escape, he met Jim, a black slave. Jim was a hard-working, simple, enthusiastic, honest, and loyal black slave. In order to escape the fate of being sold again by his master, he ran away from his master's home.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's representative work. After eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone. However, the fish was so big that he dragged his boat on the sea for three days before exhaustion. He killed him and tied him to the side of the boat. On the way back, he was repeatedly attacked by sharks. When he finally returned to port, only the head, tail and a spine were left. Although this is a work with a simple story and a small length, it is rich in meaning. Many teachers use it as a teaching material on heroism education and recommend it to students, making it an enduring bestseller.

"The Wandering Child" is a novel written by the French writer Hector Marlowe, first published in 1878. The novel tells the story of the protagonist, little Remy, who was abandoned on the street due to his parents' greed and cruelty. A legendary plot unfolds around Remy's fate. It reveals some ruthless social phenomena in capitalist society and is a mirror reflecting French social life in the 19th century.

This book is the pioneer work of British essay literature. With its concise language, beautiful writing style, thorough reasoning, and repeated aphorisms, it occupies a unique position in the history of world literature. "Reading it is like listening to the teachings of an expert, and I benefit a lot." It has been translated into many languages ​​and published, and is still a best-seller to this day. In 1985, it was selected as one of the "20 Best Books in Human History" by the American "Life" magazine; in the same year, it was selected as a recommended book in the American "Good Reading Guide".

This book marks a new peak for Gorky in exploring positive characters. Since the 1890s, Gorky has been actively exploring the creation of positive characters in his creations. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the booming workers' movement has greatly inspired his creative passion. The 1905 revolution had a decisive impact on Gorky's political thought and literary and artistic creation. He stood at the height of proletarian thought, boldly innovated, and finally created the typical image of Pavel, a plump proletarian hero, and brought the worker and peasant heroes into the field of literature. This book shows Gorky's high artistic talent in portraying proletarian heroes. In this book, Gorky used the creative method of socialist realism for the first time, that is, to describe reality truly, historically and concretely from the actual revolutionary development. This book is the first new literary work written using this creative method. This book creates a new era of proletarian literature with its true description of the new revolutionary reality, its profound summary of the nature of the times, its heroic figures with high ideological and artistic qualities, and its new creative methods.

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The author uses unusual imagination to describe all kinds of strange things that the protagonist Gulliver encounters when he travels to "Lilliput", "Adult", "Huiyin" and other places. For example, in the "Lilliput Kingdom", he can freely play with all kinds of people from kings to common people in the palm of his hand; while in the "Adult Kingdom", he can be controlled by others like a child; after arriving in the "Hui Yin Kingdom", the horse has become a symbol of wisdom, and people have become inferior animals. Through such interesting stories, the author satirized various ills of British society at that time, such as the intrigues of politicians and the greed of the rich. While readers admire the author's fantastic ideas, they can also have a general understanding of the situation in Britain at that time.

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With its exquisite artistic form and broad ideological content, it has become an unreachable peak in the history of world drama. This tragedy describes the story of Prince Hamlet of Denmark avenging his father. It is based on 1,200 years of Danish history. It has been adapted and re-created by many people, but Shakespeare used his own genius to inject the flavor and philosophy of the times into this ancient story. The play also contributed an unprecedented image to the history of world literature - Hamlet. The profound development of this image in the spiritual world is the most fruitful harvest of the entire European literature.

The French literary world in the 19th century was full of bright and colorful stars. There are at least three dazzling stars, all of whom have become masters and whose writing techniques are also unique. The famous literary critic Mr. Li Jianwu summed it up as "Stendhal, profound; Balzac, great; Flaubert, perfect." In the writing of "Madame Bovary", Flaubert completely updated the narrative techniques of the novel, used realism to describe a real world for readers, and showed us a meticulous painting of the intertwining of various characters in French society and industrialized society in the mid-19th century. Therefore, "Madame Bovary" is considered the originator of modern novels. It is worth mentioning that Maupassant, the famous French short story writer known to the world (the works of this writer have been selected in the "The Third Series of the Most Classic English Library"), chose to study under Flaubert. Later, this great disciple also became famous in the world of literature. The theme of the story "Madame Bovary" was not made up by Flaubert out of thin air. The entire storyline is based on real life. Charles Bovary is based on the prototype of Oujie de la Marme, an intern at Flaubert's father's hospital. Emma, ​​a beautiful rural girl with romantic dreams, recites poems about the sea, forests, stars and other natural poems while walking towards a city far away from nature and full of material and desire. In the early days of Emma's marriage to Charles, her heart was full of expectations for a better married life. She tried her best and used all the romantic means she knew: reciting poems, painting, playing the piano and singing. However, her husband, who has neither the appearance of a knight but also is cowardly, mediocre, dull, vulgar in manners, and incomprehensible to romance, has no interest in her, and cannot satisfy her needs in sexual relations. She soon loses her patience with her husband, and her marriage becomes a stagnant water. So, she decided to break out of the "cage" and find the romantic "love" in her mind. Ever since she embarked on the road to pursue love, Emma's tragic fate has been doomed. Emma has experienced three stages in her life: transformation, degradation and destruction. Flaubert's pen is like a scalpel, dissecting all the weaknesses in Emma's humanity... The most important point is that the English translation published this time is the most authoritative version, and it is also the unabridged version.

This book selects Mark Twain's famous short and medium-sized stories such as "Running for Governor" and "The Story of Cannibalism on a Train", allowing readers to understand that the author usually revolves around a specific plot, and uses his free and easy writing skills to exaggerate things to the best of their ability, making readers gradually get better and believe it is true.